Someday is someday. And if I tell you to kill yourself (for a cause you deem supremely good, and to be materially helped by it) right now? Makes a difference, doesn’t it?
I thought this was one of the lowest crimes ever. Bomb the Boston Marathon? What for? Which makes me think it must be a foreigner responsible.
But it is tax day, and Patriot’s Day, and the bombs look like they weren’t very good, which makes it look like domestic nutjob. So who the fuck knows.
Sure is a low down crime though. It is terrible that what is basically a celebration ended in amputation. I wish I could help 
You answered your own question. No, I don’t think the 9/11 terrorists, for example, were looking at the increase in government power and reduction in respect for freedoms and invasion of Iraq in the win category.
Their agenda and the agenda of the politicians in the terrorized country are different. Occasionally they line up, occasionally they’re at odds, but those politicians and the hysterical public that gives them their power are a million times more dangerous than some guy dumping bombs in garbage cans.
Remain civilized. Encourage others to do so. Its not enough, and you will never be sure that its doing any good at all. On the other hand, think of all the damage done by people who are sure about what they are doing, and take some comfort.
That is suspicious. Considering that they don’t feel pain like humans do, they usually just stand and take it, desert-style (palm or cactus, don’t make no nevermind).
I don’t know which is sadder, that someone makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories or that there are enough people paying him so that he makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories.
Mustn’t. Mustn’t. Mustn’t. . . .
[clicks]
:o
So, can, like, an infidel issue a fatwah, or something? Any mullahs here? Help a dhimmi out?
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Oh, that’s easy! Only the latter is sad! 
Saw an intertubes rumor that the Westbummer Church was going to picket the funerals. I don’t know what to think about that, so I’m not gonna. I’ll just burden you with it, and split.
Yeah, not a rumor. Not surprisingly, the explosions made the Westboros happy.
Well, he said a “kind” of courage, and I have to agree.
Speaking of terrorism per se, itt’s a sick kind of courage. It’s a sniveling kind of courage, the kind that says, “Okay, I’m gonna die, but I’m gonna take more than one of you with me.” It’s a “last laugh” kind of thing, the ultimate in schadenfreude. The last thing he sees in his life is someone else hurt, or afraid, or simply walking into a cafe in utter ignorance of what is about to happen. It’s a shitten kind of courage.
There are other kinds of suicide missions: the kind in wartime, against an armed enemy, such as calling in an artillery strike on your own position, or standing as a “forlorn hope,” being the last guy to retreat, firing off all your ammo to buy the rest of your unit an extra minute. There, the motive isn’t the infliction of unnecessary pain, but (usually) an actual tactical goal that makes sense. This is the kind of courage we celebrate as valor.
There are a hell of a lot of emotions available to the human spirit, some a lot nicer than others.
Well, obviously, it’s God’s punishment on our society for letting fit young women and men run skimpy-clad right out in public with their plump bloated baskets swinging so sweatily and so shamelessly, that’s why.
Was there like a BizzaroWorld Jesus that I never heard about in Sunday School?
Bus-ted!
That was the entire point; the cruelty of it. I can’t even imagine what it was like, after enduring 26 miles of a hellish body-wrecking marathon, to immediately be plunged into the carnage, destruction, confusion and horror of this attack.
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Christ, what an imagination I’ve got.
Geez that is a disgusting and unfair comparison. To goat felching douchenozzles everywhere. These perps make Fred Phelps and clan seem civilized by comparison. How about doing everything we can to find them and prosecute them?
I may have a totally different candidate for pitting.
Here’s a headline and a link to World markets slump after terror attack on CNN.com making a relationship between today’s attack and world markets.
And even though the article states that the slump was already happening they just embedded the attack in it and made this direct relationship that does not exist at all.
But, it’s already made and the link is there embedded in a collective mindset and nobody can undo it.
So, how come so called business journalists get a pass on this? If this is not scare-mongering I don’t know what is …
Not to mention Jane Harman saying on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer show that “bombings pointed in the direction of Al Qaeda” while the smoke was still on the streets of Boston.
Got to make some money. Fast!